“…Interpretations of the biblical narratives in Jewish and Christian traditions…”
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“…Narrating absentee landlordism in Iran…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The use of personal narratives in the social sciences and history -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : disclosure functions, narrator functions, and the distinctiveness of character narration, or, A rhetoric and ethics of "Barbie-Q" -- The implied author, unreliability, and ethical positioning : The remains of the day -- Unreliable narration, restricted narration, and the implied author in memoir : Angela's ashes and (a glance at) 'Tis -- Dual focalization, discourse as story, and ethics : Lolita -- Suppressed narration in confessional memoir : The kiss -- Progression and audience engagement in lyric narratives : "Now I lay me" and "Doc's story" -- Epilogue : serial narration, observer narration, and mask narration…”

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“…Presenting an institutional context for the increasing complexity and ubiquity of narrative identity, the authors illustrate the "everyday technology of self construction" and discuss the resulting moral climate…”
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“…Theatricality and narrative in Apuleius' Golden ass…”

“…Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives asks questions about the varying scales, methods of analysis, and opportunities through which we might reconsider the making of architecture in the context of global flows of energy and resources"--…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Somebody telling somebody else: authors, resources, audiences -- Somebody telling somebody else: audiences and probable impossibilities -- Probability in fiction and nonfiction: pride and prejudice and the year of magical thinking -- Engaging the stubborn: narrative speed and readerly judgments in Franz Kafka's "Das Urteil" -- Estranging unreliability, bonding unreliability, and the ethics of Lolita -- The how and why of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow -- "I affirm nothing": Lord Jim and the uses of textual recalcitrance -- Toni Morrison's determinate ambiguity in "Recitatif" -- Conversational and authorial disclosure in dialogue narrative: George Higgins's The friends of Eddie Coyle and John O'Hara's "Appearances" -- The implied author, deficient narration, and nonfiction narrative: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly -- Reliability, dialogue, and crossover effects in Jhumpa Lahiri's "The third and final continent" -- Reliable, unreliable, and deficient narration: toward a rhetorical poetics -- Occasions of narration and the functions of narrative segments in enduring love -- Conclusion: Reflections on the how and why of rhetorical poetics…”